GRE Word List
AVOCATION
a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby
The meaning of the word avocation is a subordinate occupation pursued in addition to one's vocation especially for enjoyment : hobby.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| fabricate | invent |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| institute | something that is instituted: such as |
| turbulence | the quality or state of being turbulent: such as |
| offhand | without premeditation or preparation : extempore |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| mire | wet spongy earth (as of a bog or marsh) |
| riddle | a mystifying, misleading, or puzzling question posed as a problem to be solved or guessed : conundrum |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |